Classic Riddles with Answers

What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?

I'm taken from a mine, shut up in a wooden case, and used by almost everyone. What am I?

What has one eye but can't see?

What has a neck but no head?

What has a head and tail but no body?

What runs forever but never walks?

What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?

What begins with an E, ends with an E, but only has one letter?

What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

What has hands but cannot clap?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

What goes up but never comes down?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?

If you have me, you want to share me. Once you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

What building has the most stories?

Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

What has keys but opens no locks?

What can you catch but not throw?

What has four wheels and flies?

What gets sharper the more you use it?